Cheshire July 3, 2018; A healthcare worker of Countess of Chester Hospital in Cheshire has been arrested by Cheshire Police on suspicion of murdering eight babies and attempting to kill six others.
According to BBC News, “Officers have been investigating the deaths of 17 newborns at the neonatal unit between March 2015 and July 2016.”
Cheshire police said the woman was arrested on Tuesday morning and taken into custody. According to The Guardian, “the address is the home of Lucy Letby, a 28-year-old nurse.”
“It is thought to be the most significant police investigation into child deaths in hospitals since the nurse Beverley Allitt, nicknamed the “Angel of Death”, was jailed for 30 years for murdering four children with lethal injections and attempting to murder three more in the early 1990s.”, reported The Guardian.
